GUWAHATI: Witness to Spanish flu and World War II, Nagaland’s oldest native 121-year-old Pupirei Pfukha, handed away peacefully on Wednesday night. According to her nice grand-daughter Arheno, she was not affected by any sickness, although she was debilitated as a result of age and her imaginative and prescient and listening to skills have been compromised. The grand outdated woman drew fairly a crowd of vacationers, who would journey to her village Kigwema close to capital Kohima, to hunt her blessings.
In the Nagaland meeting polls held final month, Pfukha forged her vote by postal poll and election officers confirmed her age as 121, in accordance with her voter ID card.
As she was laid to relaxation on Thursday afternoon, all massive organisations of the realm paid their final respects. Some of the locals stated a DNA take a look at can verify her precise age, which they speculated could also be much more.
Regarded because the grandma of the village that has a inhabitants of 6,000, her demise got here as a shock for Arheno. Many of the villagers by no means noticed her going to hospital. “She was not suffering from any illness. Her death took everyone by surprise,” stated Arheno.